One Stop Cookie Shop Recipes

Monday, December 1, 2014

The most wonderful time of the year, it really is. We just love baking cookies. This is a round up of all the families favorite cookies. There are 24 kinds of cookies to choose for. It's like having your own cookie cookbook right here!

Every year our family gets together to bake cookies. My family in Utica, New York calls it their cookie bake day. Here in Florida we miss everyone up North but manage to talk to each other and sway ideas.

We make all different kinds that mom made and many are Italian traditions. These are tried and true baked every year in our home and I hope you enjoy your stroll through our collection of delicious cookies.

The Most Wonderful Time of the YEAR!

Building traditions, bonding with family and making memories that will last through generations to come and through our lifetimes.

This is what we all look forward to every year in our families by getting together to bake all our favorite cookies!

My late mom, Margaret, taught us to cherish those moments through our cooking and baking as a family.

No matter where we live, whether we're all separated by different states or live close by, we continue to enjoy this time of the year making cookies.

All of us share the fun with family and friends, making new memories, reminiscing over the past years telling wonderful stories when we were younger to pass down to the our children.

Traditions

Hopefully in times to come they will with their children too.

In this segment and special edition, I will showcase 24 different cookies we traditionally make year after year together.

Some vintage favorites and newer additions from the next generation of family bakers. Both families shown, are my brother's from New York and his children, friends and family and in Florida, my children, friends and family.

In our annual cookie feast this year, we were lucky that all of us have SKYPE.

That is an online video cam web service, to bake together through our cyberspace online and watch each other bake and get to converse back and forth, it's awesome!

Don't Forget To Pin this Collection!

Care Packages

After we complete making all our cookies each year, we send out a care package to one another the week of Christmas.

All cookies freeze and travel (with some good packing) very well. Mom's Italian cookie recipes have been with us year after year, generation after generation and her legacy and love continues through all of us that enjoy baking them.

These are just a few of the many different varieties I hope you all enjoy them as much as we do.

This reminds me so much of my house when I was growing up. Christmas baking started as soon as the Thanksgiving meal was finished and lasted until Christmas Eve. The last couple of days before Christmas we couldn't eat at the kitchen table because it was covered with cookies and candies, along with console stereo, the card tables and any TV trays we could find.

Incredible post, pictures and desserts Claudia!! Good for you and for Foodbuzz that accepted your proposal. I don’t know which of the pictures want more- summing up all mmmm (the food of course ;) Skype today is magic!

Nobody puts together a holiday cookie tray like you do! I have a couple of your cookie recipes from last year that I have printed out and can't wait to get started on and now I can't wait to see your baking projects for this year!

I have to make the Italian Raspberry Filled Shortbread. I just love the star in the middle. What fun! My daughter and a few friends are joining me for a holiday baking party in a few weeks. I'll have some new recipes to try. Thanks Claudia!

Claudia your family tradition is so beautiful I love that it has been an ongoing and will continue with the next generation. It's also so great that you use Skype to still be together and enjoy your tradition. All of the cookies look beautiful and delicious. I will be looking through your recipes to try a couple. Happy holidays to you and your beautiful family:)

OMG Claudia, I'm having a sugar rush just salivating at all the photos, can't wait to go get the recipes, many I think I have already booked marked but I sure don't want to miss any - great idea on the communicating with family and congrats on the FB project - so glad they said 'yes' and not a cold shoulder this time (opps),,,,,

Claudia-Are you going away already for the Christmas Holidays?...wishing us a Happy Holiday, or you're just ahead of the game.Your family hoiday photos are so nice, everyone looks so happy. The Italian cookie selection is so amazing, and beautiful, I will certainly come back to get the recipes. So sweet of you to share your precious holiday family memories, and the amazing Italian cookies, and recipesThank you for sharing!

What a loving,delicious post. I will be returning here again and again to partake of these goodies. I love the Skyping! And the gorgeous family connecting - through cookies! Truly wonderful, Claudia - it gets me into the holiday spirit. Your 24x24 post just sounds bells of sweet wonder.

OMG..... I have found cookie heaven!!congratulations on having foodbuzz, choose your idea for the 24 x 24!!that is so cool, and you certainly have taken it to a new level with all those incredible cookies!!CheersDennis

What a wonderful idea for 24x24! I think it is absolutely awesome that you and your family have bake sessions via skype.. gotta love technology! I will absolutely be back for some of these cookie recipes.. I don't even know where to begin because they all look delicious!

Ohhh Claudia...how I envy that there are great bakers along your side. What a fabulous tradition you have going on. I'm a tad bit envious. Care packages like these must be incredibly fun to prepare and receive.

The roundup of cookies have brought back some memories of cookies my Nonna in Italy used to make. I'm going to have to give your list a lot more attention before I finalize my Christmas cookie baking. I'm just praying I get around to all this baking I'm looking forward to doing ;o)

Hi Claudia, I'm a bit behind and so happy I'm catching up. This is one post I would have hated to miss. What a fabulous family and some of the best cookies I've ever seen... Reminds me of my grandma. Hope you have plenty of family time this holiday season.

the cookies look great. so lovely and such fun. i love traditions like that. wish i had some struffoli now...we are making them this year...the cookies you call wedding cookies, my aunt calls them knot cookies...not sure why! but everything looks great!

This so reminds me of my family and our Italin cookies! I love your blog and idea for these cookies on Foodbuzz. I'll be soon baking my family's Xmas Italian cookies which may have different names than yours, but I can detect the similarities!

What a wonderful family tradition - and so great that it continues with the technology we have today! I'm bookmarking your post for when my daughter comes home on Thursday - we Skype, too :) Happy holidays - and congrats on a beautiful 24x24 and Top 9!

What a beautiful post!! I haven't started my baking yet this year, and my waistline is so far thanking me! But you have so many tempting treats here. I think I'm inspired!Lovely post, and Congrats on the Top 9 today!

Claudia, what a wonderful way to celebrate and think of family as you are doing it. Some of these I don't have the recipes for, so I'm saving this to try some new ones this coming year. Happy New Years!-Gina-

Claudia, I think I just died and ended up in cookie heaven! Looking so forward to using some of your recipes. I am also proud to be a part of the YBR Roundup for December. I will be back often to check up on your fabulous eats.

This reminds me so much of my house when I was growing up. Christmas baking started as soon as the Thanksgiving meal was finished and lasted until Christmas Eve. The last couple of days before Christmas we couldn't eat at the kitchen table because it was covered with cookies and candies, along with console stereo, the card tables and any TV trays we could find.